Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
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5th c. · Letters · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I (ed. Philip Schaff, 1886–90)
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Contents
Introduction & Notes
Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
- 1. To Heal Heretics is Better Than to Destroy Them
- 2. Why the Manichæans Should Be More Gently Dealt with
- Chapter 3.—Augustin Once a Manichæan
- 4. Proofs of the Catholic Faith
- 5. Against the Title of the Epistle of Manichæus
- 6. Why Manichæus Called Himself an Apostle of Christ
- 7. In What Sense the Followers of Manichæus Believe Him to Be the Holy Spirit
- 8. The Festival of the Birth-Day of Manichæus
- 9. When the Holy Spirit Was Sent
- 10. The Holy Spirit Twice Given
- 11. Manichæus Promises Truth, But Does Not Make Good His Word
- 12. The Wild Fancies of Manichæus. The Battle Before the Constitution of the…
- 13. Two Opposite Substances. The Kingdom of Light. Manichæus Teaches…
- 14. Manichæus Promises the Knowledge of Undoubted Things, and Then Demands…
- 15. The Doctrine of Manichæus Not Only Uncertain, But False. His Absurd Fancy…
- 16. The Soul, Though Mutable, Has No Material Form. It is All Present in Every…
- 17. The Memory Contains the Ideas of Places of the Greatest Size
- 18. The Understanding Judges of the Truth of Things, and of Its Own Action
- 19. If the Mind Has No Material Extension, Much Less Has God
- 20. Refutation of the Absurd Idea of Two Territories
- 21. This Region of Light Must Be Material If It is Joined to the Region of…
- 22. The Form of the Region of Light the Worse of the Two
- 23. The Anthropomorphites Not So Bad as the Manichæans
- 24. Of the Number of Natures in the Manichæan Fiction
- 25. Omnipotence Creates Good Things Differing in Degree. In Every Description…
- 26. The Manichæans are Reduced to the Choice of a Tortuous, or Curved, or…
- 27. The Beauty of the Straight Line Might Be Taken from the Region of Darkness…
- 28. Manichæus Places Five Natures in the Region of Darkness
- 29. The Refutation of This Absurdity
- 30. The Number of Good Things in Those Natures Which Manichæus Places in the…
- Chapter 31.—The Same Subject Continued
- 32. Manichæus Got the Arrangement of His Fanciful Notions from Visible Objects
- 33. Every Nature, as Nature, is Good
- 34. Nature Cannot Be Without Some Good. The Manichæans Dwell Upon the Evils
- 35. Evil Alone is Corruption. Corruption is Not Nature, But Contrary to Nature…
- 36. The Source of Evil or of Corruption of Good
- Chapter 37.—God Alone Perfectly Good
- 38. Nature Made by God; Corruption Comes from Nothing
- 39. In What Sense Evils are from God
- 40. Corruption Tends to Non-Existence
- 41. Corruption is by God’s Permission, and Comes from Us
- 42. Exhortation to the Chief Good
- Chapter 43.—Conclusion